Since issue #6, the main character in the story has been trying to survive the lethal posturing of a resurrected Dracula and the corporate raider uncle of his that has also become a vampire lord (and members of the corporation and family into his minions. As the end game approaches, the key to solving Dracula's power source (the bargain that turned mortal into undead) the key to defeating all of the undead that are after our mage.

We now find out WHAT that infernal bargain was.

Not a big or overwhelming reveal, but taken into context it does raise the stakes just a little for this universe. Enough to keep me interested.

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When I read Paradise Lost I thought it was dumb. Dante's Inferno I actually like quite a lot, in the way it starts as a love story and evolves from there. Alighieri blended Christian dogma and Greek myths with a deftness I've never seen repeated.

Honestly, it isn't, and if the bible were treated the same as any other mythology it might make my fuckin' life, believe you me. I really can't say why this scene rubs me such the wrong way. Maybe it's the "good ole King James" comment. I dunno, just something about this is so...smarmy to me.

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I kind of thought that there were implications that the Bible was certainly not the first place he looked? As in, it usually doesn't have the answer, that sort of thing.

And Paradise Lost was certainly problematic (oh, Milton) but I'm not sure dumb's the word I'd use, even though I didn't particularly enjoy it, for a number of reasons, starting with ewwww, skeevy woman-issues.